"Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star."
- Joni Mitchell
Awareness
"Sometimes the light can be so hard to find. At least the moon at the window, the thieves left that behind."
- Joni Mitchell
Awareness
"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
- Joni Mitchell
Awareness
"It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on."
- Joni Mitchell
Hope
"My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words."
- Joni Mitchell
Inspiration
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity